Content Managment News & Articles

ColumbiaSoft™, a provider of document management software for a variety of customers, announced approval of Document Locator® for listing in the Construction Specification Institute’s (CSI’s) GreenFormat. Greenformat is a search engine firms can use to find green-certified products for construction. It also charges a thousand dollars a year for this listing. Apparently, it takes some green to certify a product as green. It is unclear whether any product backed by the thousand dollar payment is rejected for inclusion by Greenformat.

The OASIS CMIS Technical Committee just wrapped up their first face to face meeting at Redmond yesterday. Was it a good session? Has the scope changed? Did all those ECM guys get along? With some insight from Alfresco CTO John Newton, we got an update and help him share that update with you.

And so it has started. The end of the year is upon us and everyone is thinking about what's ahead. Independent analyst firm CMS Watch has offered up their 2009 predictions. If the results of how they faired with last year's round are any indication, we may all do well to pay attention.

DotNetNuke is on the move. Not only have they picked up some serious cash through some Series A Funding — the amount of which they don’t seem to want to disclose — but they have also brought in a new CEO, Navin Nagiah, to run the show.

With over 10 years experience in the role of CEO or General Manager of various software/technology companies and the expectation is that he will help drive the market expansion of DotNetNuke.

Early bird registration is going on from now until July 1st for the 4th international jboye08 conference, a meeting of global gurus in Aarhus, Denmark. The conference brings together IT practitioners from all over the world in order to share and learn in an open environment. It is described as intense, with discussions, demos and interaction from the attendees.

Back in 2007 we marveled at how Sitecore’s Intranet Portal encouraged collaboration, as well as how it provided a strong development architecture, “making it amenable to internal and external communication - all scalable, with trackable results.”

We might not have known it at the time, but those assets are helping to advance content management in 2008.

SDL Tridion, a provider of web content management solutions, has launched the newest version of its flagship product, R5.3.

This new version provides improvements to business, system and collaboration processes, along with a new approach to templating.